major scale

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major scale

n. Music

A diatonic scale having half steps between the third and fourth and the seventh and eighth degrees and whole steps between the other adjacent degrees.

major scale

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major scale - a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th

major diatonic scale

musical mode, mode - any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

C major, C major scale, scale of C major - (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats

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